My guess is that the resolution the NES outputs isn’t big enough to display kanji – say you’ve only got 8×8 pixels for each character (no idea, that’s just an educated guess), how would you represent 話 clearly? It’s not like 話 is a complicated kanji: schoolchildren learn it in second grade or equivalent (according to Wikipedia).

Nice :D Got it first time :P

So for the “noun” colours 「緑、紫、茶色、金、etc.」, you treat them like な-adjectives and add the に? Are there any other nouns that can be transformed this way or is this a quirk unique to colours?

Thanks again :)

As far as I’m aware, the verb 染める（そめる） means to dye/colour something, like an item of clothing (though correct me if it has a different meaning). How would I say “I will dye the t-shirt red.”?

My first thought would be to make 赤い[red] into an adverb (i.e. 赤く) to form a sentence like this: ティシャートを赤く染める。
Does that even work? It doesn’t seem quite right to me because then how would you do the same with 緑[green] (not an adjective, right?)?

Saying 赤いティシャートを染める。makes it sound more like you are dying a t-shirt that’s already red.

There is probably some particle I don’t know yet that deals with this sorta stuff. Hold on… I have a feeling 「で」 is involved somehow…

Danke.

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^ No problem ;) RTK sorta gets your brain “used” to seeing kanji, makes them less scary. So you can see the word 飛行機（ひこうき）[aeroplane] and be like “ah, it’s just made up of ‘fly/going/mechanism’ – makes sense *happyface*” instead of thinking “oh god… mass of black lines… kill it with fire… can’t take much more…” ;) You might not get what I mean by “getting used to seeing kanji” until you experience the process yourself, though – it’s a fantastic feeling of real progress :)

Any more questions, fire away :)

Firstly, do it. Just do it. It’s really the best thing I could have ever done in regards to Japanese learning :) I guess you don’t realise the benefit until you’re a big chunk through it, but it’s so goddamn useful. It may seem a chore but the benefits are surprisingly big.

Secondly, now that I’m finished, I use TextFugu for the important readings. Really though, there are some readings that you’ll just “pick up” as you go through vocab because they are so common. Learning readings beforehand definitely helps, but it’s not strictly necessary.

Let’s face it, TextFugu’s kanji section isn’t getting finished this decade, so it’s best to find something to supplement it :P

I’ve answered the “should I do it question?” so many times on here now XD Every time I basically say “yes”. Go for it :) Trust us (me, winterpromise31 and Sheepy) ;).

Would it not just be 「ボンジュー」? The ‘r’ in bonjour isn’t really pronounced enough, surely…?

Elysia, that’s the most godawful portrait I’ve ever seen – absolutely horrendous, makes me wanna punch the screen…

No wait, I meant the exact opposite of that. Sorry ¬.¬’
I’m no artist myself, but I’d say that’s pretty damn awesome.

;)